U.S. Intel: Obama Coalition Supported Islamic State in Syria (May 2015 story)

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[TigerClaws]

A newly released intelligence report from the Pentagon shows that the U.S. government knew that supporting jihadists in the fight against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad would produce a fundamentalist Islamic State in Eastern Syria — and that Obama’s supposed “anti-ISIS” coalition knowingly backed ISIS and other Islamic terrorists for precisely that purpose. The heavily redacted Defense Department report, obtained by watchdog Judicial Watch via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, shows once again that, contrary to the false narrative peddled by the establishment press, the rise of the savage terror group known as ISIS was actually deliberate policy. Now, the fruits of that plot are becoming clearer as the body count continues to skyrocket.

The 2012 Defense Intelligence Agency report is very blunt about the objectives. “The West, Gulf countries [the Islamic regimes ruling Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, etc.], and Turkey support the Syrian opposition,” it explains, adding that, as The New American reported at the time, al-Qaeda supported the Syrian uprising from the beginning as well. “There is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist [fundamentalist Islam] principality in Eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime.” (Emphasis added.) Of course, that is also exactly what happened when ISIS declared the establishment of its “caliphate” in Eastern Syria and parts of Iraq. ULINE Shipping Supplies Huge Catalog! Over 31,000 Products. Same Day Shipping from 11 Locations www.ULINE.com

The DIA report also exposes the lies propagated by the Obama administration, senior U.S. lawmakers, and foreign leaders to dupe Americans into allowing the U.S. government to support non-existent “moderate” rebels in Syria. According to the classified document, which was released by a court order, U.S. authorities were well aware of the fact that, as reported by The New American shortly after it began, the rebellion against Assad was being led by radical jihadists — including many of the same forces the U.S. government was ostensibly fighting against in the terror war. “The Salafist, the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI [Al Qaeda in Iraq] are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria,” stated the report, which was dated August 12, 2012, long after The New American and other media outlets exposed that same fact.

The Defense Department’s intelligence analysts also warned of the consequences all of the machinations could have on Iraq. “This creates the ideal atmosphere for AQI [al-Qaeda Iraq] to return to its old pockets in Mosul and Ramadi, and will provide a renewed momentum under the presumption of unifying the jihad among Sunni Iraq and Syria, and the rest of the Sunnis in the Arab world against what it considers one enemy, the dissenters,” the report explained, pointing to two cities in Iraq that are now under ISIS control. “ISI [Islamic State in Iraq] could also declare an Islamic state through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria, which will create grave danger in regards to unifying Iraq and the protection of its territory.”

The New American magazine and many other sources have been reporting much of that information almost since the start of the Western establishment-backed “rebellion” against the Syrian regime. However, some analysts are now calling the DIA report a “smoking gun.” Among other points, the documents offer further proof that the rise of ISIS, due largely to the foreign policy of the Obama administration and its allies, was not the result of an accident or stupidity — but of deliberate planning. However, Vice President Joe Biden and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey had already let the cat at least partially out of the bag.

Speaking at Harvard last year, Biden directly contradicted the Obama administration’s propaganda about arming “moderate” rebels in Syria. “The fact is, the ability to identify a moderate middle in Syria, um, was, uh — there was no moderate middle,” he explained, adding that Obama’s anti-ISIS coalition had armed, trained, and funded al Qaeda and ISIS to wage war on Assad. General Dempsey, meanwhile, responding to a question by pro-Syrian jihad senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) about U.S. allies supporting ISIS, explained: “I know of major Arab allies who fund them.” Of course, the CIA, the U.S. Defense Department, and the U.S. State Department were also instrumental in the fomenting the rise of ISIS.

Similarly, as is now common knowledge, the Obama administration, acting under United Nations orders rather than a declaration of war from Congress as required by the Constitution, backed self-styled al-Qaeda leaders in the war against Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi. Analysts and even top U.S. military officials blasted it as “switching sides” in the terror war. The fruits in Libya are clear, too — the nation has become what Senator Rand Paul referred to as a “jihadist wonderland,” a failed state in which terrorist groups run wild. Gadhafi, of course, despite being a brutal dictator, was a U.S. government ally in its terror war prior to being targeted for “regime change” and summary execution by Western-backed jihadists.

Other newly released official U.S. documents obtained by Judicial Watch also show that the Obama administration was fully aware that weapons were being shipped from Benghazi to Syrian jihadists — another story that the alternative media broke years ago. The U.S. government reports also show that the Obama administration knew the assault on the secret U.S. compound in the Libyan city was a well-planned terror attack, even as officials were falsely claiming otherwise on television. “These documents are jaw-dropping,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “No wonder we had to file more FOIA lawsuits and wait over two years for them.”

“If the American people had known the truth — that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other top administration officials knew that the Benghazi attack was an al-Qaeda terrorist attack from the get-go — and yet lied and covered this fact up — Mitt Romney might very well be president,” he said, adding that the documents prove an ongoing cover-up surrounding Benghazi. “And why would the Obama administration continue to support the Muslim Brotherhood even after it knew it was tied to the Benghazi terrorist attack and to al Qaeda? These documents also point to connection between the collapse in Libya and the ISIS war — and confirm that the U.S. knew remarkable details about the transfer of arms from Benghazi to Syrian jihadists.”

Unsurprisingly, while the explosive revelations are receiving a great deal of attention in the alternative press — much of which had already been exposing the machinations for years — the establishment media has barely uttered a word about it. ZeroHedge, Infowars, The Levant Report, Lew Rockwell, the Ron Paul Liberty Report, and others have all highlighted the contents. In the “mainstream” press, though, the only notable exception to the bizarre silence was the U.K. Sunday Times, which reported on May 24 that the DIA report “has prompted accusations that President Barack Obama lied when he claimed to have been blindsided by an intelligence failure after Isis swept into Iraq early last year.”

Analysts suggested that the media silence may be related to the establishment press’s bizarre parroting of outlandish and easily discredited Obama administration talking points in the run up to the attempted “regime change” war on Syria. “Throughout the early years of the Syria crisis, the U.S. and U.K. governments, and almost universally the West’s mainstream media, promoted Syria’s rebels as moderate, liberal, secular, democratic, and therefore deserving of the West’s support,” former British Army and Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism intelligence officer Charles Shoebridge told Nafeez Ahmed with Insurge Intelligence. “Given that these documents wholly undermine this assessment, it’s significant that the West’s media has now, despite their immense significance, almost entirely ignored them.”

The DIA document was widely circulated throughout the U.S. government — the State Department, Central Command, the Department of Homeland Security, the CIA, the FBI, and other agencies would have all seen it, according to media reports. That means its contents, and therefore, the engineered rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) to “isolate” Assad, would not have been a surprise to U.S. officials. In other words, in addition to supporting the most violent and barbaric jihadists on the planet while ostensibly waging a liberty-crushing “terror war,” top-level government officials have been lying to the American people and the world. It is time for the perpetrators to be held accountable.

[TigerClaws]

So Trump was correct yet again.

[Paine in the Neck]

Sid Vicious got his money. Hillary got hers.

“What difference ... yada, yada...”

[DaveA37]

Yes, and the American people, who knew all along, were expected to wait until such a report was made public? Guess the reports are being released the same way that Hitlary’s emails have been.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Obama, McCain, Hillary, Graham, Kerry and Rubio were all involved in arming the beginnings of ISIS.
This was a bipartisan policy of arming jihadists at the behest of the Saudis.
The Saudis wanted Assad gone to build a pipeline to Europe.

[mvonfr]

Obama, McCain, Hillary, Graham, Kerry and Rubio were all involved in arming the beginnings of ISIS.

Beginning of ISIS is the Bush strategy implemented by Petraeus. These others came in later.

[ilovesarah2012]

The MSN will never admit it.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The Saudis wanted Assad gone to build a pipeline to Europe.

That's it. Hillary's campaign has become Team Petrodollar, and all of those who back it will line up behind Figurehead Clinton, regardless of nominal party affiliation. A Trump victory may in fact lead directly to a recognized economic depression for America - but only because we have all spent the last fifteen years riding on the backs of some of the blackest villains in human history..

[PGR88]

ISIS, Al Qaeda, Al Nusrah and most other Jihadis are supported by larger powers in the Mid-East, mostly Saudi Arabia.

The Saudis, and their stupid American lackeys, feel that they can use these jihadi groups as a larger strategic tool. Like Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, once we have poked the Russians in the eye, or have secured pipeline rights, or overthrown a dictator who was a threat - then, the thinking is, the Islamist groups who did the dirty work can be controlled or eliminated.

[GOPJ]

Yep, these are the kind of ‘right tone’ idiots who got us into these messes then signed letters against Trump...

[Harpotoo]

Yep but it will never be known at least not through the LSM!

[Enchante]

This nightmare was produced by all those ignorant self-important “national security experts” of both parties who are now attacking Trump and supporting Shrillary.

[antidisestablishment]

I’m glad this is getting out. It needs to be shouted from the rooftops.

I don’t expect the MSM to pick it up, but everyone involved in the intel communities has been saying this for years. Going through the “proper” channels has only resulted in reprisals against the whistle-blowers.

I hope Trump takes this to the finish line. The country has to know that this administration has been playing on the wrong side for years. Our military is being used as unwilling pawns in Obama’s sick plans for undermining the western world.

[Sam Gamgee]

Let me get this straight. The US was sending US funded weapons to ISIS backed rebels? The US was complicit in killing Syrian soldiers, who have been fighting ISIS, and protecting Christian minorities? That Russia is backing Assad's anti-ISIS forces that the US is trying to kill? And lastly, there never was any well organized, well armed, non-ISIS opposition to Assad - at least not one the US was supporting?

[Sam Gamgee]

Sadly it might be too complex to reach voter ears.

[TigerClaws]

Yes. That’s what went down at Benghazi. It was an arms deal gone wrong.

Stevens knew everything. Hillary was okay letting him die to plug the possible leak.

[antidisestablishment]

It may be too late, but only because the MSM refuses to tell the truth. It’s not complicated; it’s just not part of the agenda.

Simply asking the questions is too dangerous to contemplate.

[HangUpNow]

0bama’s supposed “anti-ISIS” coalition knowingly backed ISIS and other Islamic terrorists...

Nice official State Dept policy, backed 100% by Hillary and Zero. No wonder ZERO downplayed ISIS as a "JV" team.

And yet there's this current propaganda blitz and meme (like from Politico) that a Trump Presidency is a 'risk our country's national security'?

These people are lying to America and the world, endangering the planet, committing treason repeatedly -- no wonder they dread a Trump Presidency. He'd flush out the entire toilet.

And why did 0bama bag-man John McCain of all people meet with ISIS leadership instead of a Democrat or Ambassador? Are Republicans actually so insulted by Trump's words for McCain, but NOT the subversive actions and treason of McCain?

John McCain was the only president I can remember who got booed while on the campaign trail for President against 0bama:

"I have to tell you, he [0bama] is a decent person, and a person that you do not have to be scared as President of the United States.”

WHERE WERE THE #NeverMcCainers?? Did they magically forget McCain's meeting with ISIS terrorists and his words of praise for 0bama DURING A Presidential CAMPAIGN??

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/11/mccain-to-crowd-dont-be-scared-of-obama-presidency/

[Sam Gamgee]

So none of this is being reported in the MSM?

[antidisestablishment]

Not at all. The press will not cover any of this. The few who know have been ignored or given the pariah treatment. The press in general has progressed from general bias to active complicity. They refuse to bring up any of the real issues and instead focus on fabrications about Trump.

Misdirection has become an art form, and Americans are too lazy or apathetic to seek the truth. It disgusts me. I have withheld judgment on Trump’s methodology because it seems he has the ability to reach the masses in a manner that resonates with them. I just pray that he wins and then addresses this in a serious manner. Then again, it is worse than anything the Soviets perpetrated. The corruption is a cancer that has metastasized throughout the federal government. It’s truly demonic in scale—beleiver or not.

[EarlyBird]

The pariah treatment? I think it’s more than that.

At this point, they’re afraid of being murdered!